Hair curler



Nov. 7, 1950 M. E. BEGUHN HAIR CURLER Filed Feb. 23, 1946 E: E- 4- r I t 3 M1145. Bgyufin EIE- E WWW Patented Nov. 7, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFKIE HAIR CURLER Mary E. Beguhn, Detroit, Mich.

Application February 23, 1946, Serial No. 649,536

1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements and structural refinements in hair curlers and the principal object of the invention is to provide a device of the character herein described, in which a strip of flexible, resilient material is curved into a frusto-conical shell on which the hair may be wound.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hair curler which, by virtue of the construction outlined in the preceding paragraph, lies flat against the head of the user and thereby substantially increases the comfort and ease associated with the use of the same.

Another object of the invention is to provide a hair curler which may be readily and quickly applied and which may subsequently be easily removed without the conventionally experienced difficulty of tangling, pulling, or otherwise mutilating the lock of hair formed by the curler.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hair curler which, lying in a flat form, may be convenient y worn under bathing caps.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a hair curler which is of simple construction and which will lend itself easily and economically to large-scale manufacture.

With the above more important objects in view, and such other objects as may become apparent as this specification proceeds, the invention consists essentially of the arrangement and construction of parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the invention, showing the same in the locked position.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the subject illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a further plan view, but showing the invention in th unlocked position.

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional View, taken in the plane of the line 4-4 in Figure 2, and

Figure 5 is a plan View, illustrating the invention in use.

Like characters of reference are used to designate like parts in the specification and throughout the several views.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, the invention is formed integrally from one strip of flexible, resilient material such as rubber and the like, the same being generally designated by the reference character it.

This strip is curved into an annular configuration to form an inverted, frusto-conical shell, as will be clearly apparent from the accompanying drawings.

One end of the strip It is provided with a tongue ll, the latter terminating in a relatively wide locking head l2. The remaining end of the strip I0 is formed with a segment-like opening i3, the straight edge M of which, is disposed remotely from the adjacent end of the strip.

Having thus described the constructional details of the invention, its method of operation will now be presented.

When the invention is placed in use, the strip H3 is in the unlocked position as illustrated in the accompanying Figure 3 and the adjacent ends of the strip may be separated sufiiciently to allow the insertion of a lock of hair into the central passage 15.

The hair may now be wound upon th midportion N5 of the strip in, as is illustrated by the hair lines ll in the accompanying Figure 5.

After the hair has been wound, the ends of the strip Eli are locked together by passing the tongue H through the opening l3, the widened head l2 preventing undesirabl releasing of the tongue from the opening, as will be clearly apparent from the drawings.

In this position, the curler will rest in a cuplike manner on the lock of hair and will lie flat against the head of the user.

When the curler is to be removed, it is simply unlocked by withdrawing the tongue I i from the While in the foregoing there has been shown I and described the preferred embodiment of this invention it is to be understood that minor changes in the details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

What I claim as my invention is: A hair curler comprising a circular strip of bendable material provided at one end thereof with a wedge-shaped tongue having a straight end edge of a lesser width than the width of said strip, side edges of said tongue being straight and extending in inwardly convergent relation from said end edge to a cross-sectionally reduced neck whereby said tongue is integrally connected to said strip, the remaining end portion of said strip being formed with a transversely extending segment-shaped opening having an arcuate edge 7 REFERENCES CITED portion and astraight edge portion which ex The following references are of record in the between the opposite ends of said arcuate edge file of this patent:

portion and is of a lesser dimension than the width of the end edge of said tongue, said tongue 5 UNITED STATES PATENTS being receivable in said opening and the con- Number Name Date vergent side edges of the tongue being enga eabl 876,402 Schacht Jan. 14, 1908 with the arcuate edge portion of said opening, 1,309,263 Spellman July 8, 1919 whereby the ends of the strip may be locked 130- 1,945,932 Caley Feb. 6, 1934 gether whil said strip assumes a frust'o-conical 10 2,028,234 Natkiel Jan. 21, 1936 form. 2,268,952 McElwain Jan. 6, 1942 2,327,678 Stovall Aug. 24, 1943 MARY E. BEGUHN. 2,378,872 Stone June 19, 1945 

